Livelihoods and Food Security Coordinator Afghanistan Kabul Central

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 7 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 7 (NRC) contracts.

Caution: this position is an Afghan National Position

Job Overview:

The Livelihoods and Food Security coordinator will help implement LFS programmes in the Central/East Region, under the country office’s LFS Core Competency. The LFS coordinator will work under the direct supervision of the Central and East Area program Manager and the close technical guidance of the LFS Specialist (based in Kabul).

Livelihoods and food security programmes support NRC’s broader strategy to promote durable solutions to displacement –beyond short-term emergency assistance – and to prevent further displacement. These programmes seek to enable vulnerable displaced people (returnees from Iran or Pakistan, as well as people internally displaced by conflict) to have access to income generation activities through agricultural, livestock, start-up and job placement initiatives, so they can support their families.

The LFS coordinator will be responsible for leading the implementation and reporting of all LFS projects in the Central/East Region (primarily Kabul, Parwan, Kapisa, Panjshir, Logar, Khost, Paktia, Jalalabad, Kunar and Laghman provinces). This will include managing the LFS team, managing budgets, ensuring that project activities and M&E data collection are being implemented on schedule; and regularly discussing ideas for project improvement or challenges with the Central Area Program Manager and LFS Specialist.

The LFS coordinator will be expected to spend at least 50% of his / her time in the field, support the field teams in the overall management of agricultural private sector livelihood projects, including climate resilience and drought response activities.

The project manager is expected to focus more on integrated projects with other sectors (core competency) within the NRC.

He / she will be responsible for leading the implementation of the portfolio of Livelihood and Food security for the central and east region.

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